Baudelaire, Charles,  1821-1867 <br/><br/>
The Flowers of Evil 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal  Release date is 2011-05-13 
<br/><br/>Produced by Andrea Ball and Marc D'Hooghe (From images generously made available by the Internet Archive)  Produced by Andrea Ball and Marc D'Hooghe (From images generously made available by the Internet Archive) 
<br/><br/> "The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire is a volume of French poetry first published in 1857. This groundbreaking collection broke with tradition through suggestive imagery and unusual forms, exploring themes of decadence, eroticism, suffering, and death. Six poems were censored for immorality, and Baudelaire was prosecuted for insulting public decency. Despite—or perhaps because of—its controversy, the work became a cornerstone of the symbolist and modernist movements, profoundly influencing French poetry and earning recognition as a major literary achievement. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>French poetry -- Translations into English 
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